Home sweet Quirky home - a house at last!

 Finally a little house from the 3d Houses set from The Cutting Cafe. I am getting on better with the Zing than I ever did with the eCraft - hooray, time to celebrate perhaps! I know
 there is a lot to learn yet. The day it wouldn't cut the whole image out - the blade needed setting and tightening, must have worked loose but it took me ages to realise what the problem was.

I used the small house with fixed roof and not opening, I think the opening ones will be lovely little gift boxes and will make some of them I think.

I added some patterned paper cutting with the files in the set, and added mosaics for the front path with glitter grouting, and tiny Prima blooms and dots of Liquid Pearls to the garden. I thought lace round the box base would look nice this time.
Regina - the box base would be great as a drawer so it could hold a gift or additional gift or be for storage.

 Side view.

Back of my house, see the "gravel" path made with microbeads?

I know the ric rac is a bit wrong here, looks much worse now I see the photo.

I would have cut out some trees but while I was squeezing the Cosmic Shimmer glue bottle my thumb suddenly started to bleed profusely from a cut I hadn't really noticed, it is all over the bottle and the blooms bottle, luckily I noticed before I bled all over the house!

This would be a great little gift to give someone moving into their new home.

To join our challenge and win some great cutting files, or files full of printable digi images, or a mixture hop on over to Quirky Crafts with your home related projects now.

I have entered the following challenges:

Anything but a card - Celebrate (Sun)

Crafting from the heart #75 anything goes (Mon)

Creative Fingers - #90 anything goes

Simply Papercrafts - anything goes (Fri 11th Sept)

That Craft Place - anything mixed media (Sat 12th Sept)

Quirky embossing reminder.

Once upon a Sunday it was reminder time.....this cute digi is from Sweet Pea Stamps and is Lisa Victoria's Dragon Luck. The image is coloured with turquoise Graph'it Markers and ProMarkers, then die cut with Spellbinders. The Spellbinders label has some embossing round it and I added some pink lace.

The sentiment is die cut with my IO dies and has a gem dot to the "i". 

The background is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and the flowers are punched and embossed with Nellie Snellen punch and emboss sets and have ProMarker and micro-bead centres.

I found some narrow satin ribbon in the exact colour of the cardstock.

The challenge is also sponsored by Limited Runs and Robyn's Fetish and as usual our top 3 each get a prize.

So hop on over and play embossing with us at Quirky Crafts, or just come and see the great examples the team have made today!

This card has fluttered into the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown - texture (Tues)

Fab and Funky - things with wings (Wed)

Inspiration Destination - #47 anything goes (Wed)

Crafty Gals - anything goes (Thurs)

A Gem of a Challenge - for the girls (Sat)

ABC - P is for Pretty in pink (Sat) (10 challenge rule)

Creative Card Crew - lace (Tues 1st Sept)

Coffee Chocolate and cards - use a sentiment (Fri 4th Sept)

Creative Fingers - #90 anything goes (Fri some time in the future lol)

Glitter n Sparkle - Happy Birthday (Sun)

Gone Quirky fishin' instead of just plain wishin'...

 I'm still singing gone fishing, and if you want to hear that song by Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby and a modern one on the first challenge post by Chris Rea hop over to Quirky now.

The team have been having fun with the great fishing images provided by Crackerbox Palace, and the really good news is that they are all 20% off until August 17th in honour of the challenge.

Alternatively you can enter our challenge and hope to win some of the images.

I used Smiley fish with the funny worm, along with the Drop me a Line sentiment and put them all in the Crackerbox Palace jar. The line the worm is on goes from the "i" in sentiment. I coloured the images with Promarkers and the "water" with Graph'it Markers. I've added real shells and some microbeads to the bottom of the jar and some ribbons that I got a long time ago from Crafty Ribbons. I used my wave blade on the rotary trimmer to cut a wavy edge which reveals the blue card insert when closed.

Don't you think of Finding Nemo when you look at this?

 Crackerbox Palace.

To play along hop on over to Quirky now, and you really should see the fantastic examples by the rest of the team too!

This card has swum into the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown - sketch

Simon Says Stamp - tie it up (Wed)

Addicted to stamps - #156 anything goes (Wed)

Simply Papercraft - #10 anything goes (Fri)

Left of Centre - #90 inspired by a film - finding Nemo (Fri)

Allsorts - #232 inspired by Summer (orange) (Sat)

Ribbon Girls - anything goes with an image (Sun)

The Craft Barn - pens (Sun)

Creative Fingers - #89 anything goes (Fri 21st)

We've gone Quirky mythical - ladies!

Kemly set the Quirky challenge this time and it is Mythical Ladies. Our generous sponsor is Stitchy Bear Digital stamps who are providing all three prizes, and provided the team with images to showcase too.

I used Yddris Yddris by Alipeeps, and coloured her with Promarkers. I didn't know what I was going to do with her until she was coloured and fussy cut, in fact her hair is decoupaged because I coloured her skin green and then decided it wasn't right but I didn't want to start the hair over again. I have tried to give her shiny purple hair using several shades of purple and light grey for the highlights, does it work or not really?

She very much reminds me of Lord of the Rings, and I knew I wanted to frame her somehow, this embossing stencil that was free with a magazine looked promising. So after embossing some Coordinations and standing it, I cut out the centre to make my frame. The snowflake cardstock behind the image was also free with possibly the same magazine. My card needed a little more, and the poinsettias seemed just right, made using my Nellie Snellen poinsettia punch and embossing sets (I still don't seem to have the middle size, must remember to try and buy them), and layers of embossed poinsettia leaves in the same dark metallic purple that I used for the card base, with some teal layers to tie in with the background. Microbeads came to mind for the stamens, and I found a pack I remembered having and - wow I found teal which was perfect! This was in a set called Art Accentz Jumbo Embellishment Palletz by Provo Craft, which included pots of microbeads, seed beads and glitter. Once I got the pot open, over a small tidy tray, I could hear the beads pinging everywhere! Trying to get them back in the pot afterwards (the ones I caught in the tray of course, I am not hunting the desk and floor for microbeads!), proved tricky because somehow they seemed to expand. So I ended up re-organising some other stuff to get them into a locking organiser and I will use a little spoon with them in future.

Finally the sentiment is stamped with a Marianne clear stamp set and die cut with a Marianne Anja Label die (LR0421 Anja Lables and CS0862 Clear stamps.)

Hop on over to Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog to see some other gorgeous mythical ladies and to join in.

My mythical lady has been entered into the following challenges:

Through the craft room door - anything goes (Nov 4th to 10th)

Paper Take Weekly - anything goes (Tues 11th)

Christmas Card Challenges - faith based or anything Christmas (Sun)

One Stitch at a Time - #223 distressing (Sun)

Pile it on - add some sparkle (Sun)

Creative Card Crew - Christmas Joy  (Tues 18th)

Cards Galore - anything goes (Nov)

That Craft Place - anything goes (Nov)